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No. 308,121; Patented Nov. 18, 1884.

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UNITED STATES BENJAMIN I. WILLIAMS,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF LANSING, MICHIGAN.

CHURN.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,121, dated November 18, 1884.

Application filed March 27, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN I. WIL- LIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lansing, in the county of Ingham and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ohurns, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to improvements upon the churn patented to me in Letters Patent No. 207,581, dated August 27, 1878.

The objects of theseimprovements are,first, to provide a means for warming the churningchamber and its contents as may be required without the necessity of renewing the heating medium; second, to draw the buttermilk from the churning-chamber; third, to provide a table or bench upon which the churn is placed, adapted to the bottom of the churn and to the placing of a lamp underneath. I attain these objects by the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of the entire churn, the cover, and the table; and Fig. 2is a top view of the cover.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

A is a round stone churn having a double bottom with a space'between, which forms a heating-chamber, as at O, which is warmed through a circular opening in the bottom by the heat of a small lamp placed underneath.

f is an outlet by which the buttermilk or other liquid is emptied from the churn, and may be stopped with a cork. The churn is placed upon a table or bench, B, which has a circular opening through the top corresponding to and coinciding with the opening in the bottom of the churn. To the under side of the table are attached two side pieces, z 13, which are grooved near the bottom edge to receive the slide F, upon which the lamp is placed. The stone cover H, having the deep annular channel formed on the under side, is made in two halves,each being provided with a knob, a, for

the convenience of handling, which is formed at the same time and solid with the cover.

In practice it has been found that the heating of the milk in the churning-chamber by hot water in a reservoir beneath was not even as desired, the water being cooled had to be drawn off and replaced with water that was warmer, whereas by heating the chamber 0 by a small lamp the desired degree of temperatureis maintained throughout the entire operation of churning.

I am aware that lamps have been used as a heating medium for similar purposes, and make no claim therefor; neither do I claim a stone churn consisting of several parts, being made in one piece of stoneware; but I am not aware of a stone churn being made in one piece of stoneware consisting of the several parts in combination, as I have described.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The within-described improved churn made in one piece of stoneware, and consisting of the body A, having dome D in the bottom, and outlet f, and the heating-chamber 0, located beneath said churning-chamber and having a central opening through the bottom, as described and specified.

2. The combination, with the stone churn heating-chamber (J, with a central opening through the bottom, of the table or bench B, having a circular opening through the top, and side pieces, M, attached to its under side, which are grooved near the bottom edge of the slide F, and lamp S, all substantially as described and specified.

BENJAMIN I. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

ASAHEL CHASE, S. L. KILBOURNE.

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